Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Sometimes you just want to get away and be normal for a few days. It's a treat to travel without your racket bag.

Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.

Anytime I am spending time with my son. We went to a theme party recently and it was Toy Story. He was Buzz Lightyear, I was Woody and his mom dressed like Woody's wife.

Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.

Take life seriously but none of the people in it.

The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.